ECI notifies
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 23 2014:
The Election Commission of India has notified that seeking/obtaining due permission for holding public meetings, rallies, processions and using loudspeakers and vehicles for the Lok Sabha election should be done under a single window system.
The ECI has also instructed to open single window permission cells at the offices of all Returning Officers in order to facilitate hassle free issuance of permits for all such activities related to election campaigns, informed an official source.
Nodal officers of all departments would be stationed at these permission cells and political parties/candidates may apply to the permission cell in-charge with expenditure plans for any activity related to their election campaigns 48 hours ahead.
The permission cell in-charge would issue permission within 36 hours of receiving the application after obtaining due approval from the concerned authority, said the official.